Hi - Merry Christmas everyone,

For what it's worth being ex RAF and very happy with the military sytem,[back in the good old days of the Vulcan Bomber] I prefer the 24 hour clock and GMT at all times, if that is too difficult for anyone to get their head around, then the question has to be asked, ''How come your in such a technical job?'' this must go for doctors & nurses as well. :rolleyes:

Come on all you HOD's get your act together!

Cheers everyone, have a good one.

Wouldn't it be simpler to get the government to drop daylight saving and remain on GMT 365 days of the year rather than try to get a consensus of agreement within the NHS?

Seems to me that the only sensible thing to do in UK hospitals is to set all clocked equipment to GMT and leave them there. After all, in our modern globalized world, surely we should all be synchronized to Universal Time anyway? Happily for us Brits, UT and GMT are effectively the same. Of course, it goes without saying (I hope) that anything else other than the 24-hour clock format will be consigned to the bin of time.

Biomeds in other parts of the world can make up their own minds, but I would suggest forgetting about BST, Daylight Saving Time and all the rest. All these different ways of recording time, are, after all, a throw-back to an earlier age. The world has moved on! Except that is, if you are getting your time signal from the NPL. Anyway, surely Internet Time is the way to go?

Let's not forget the Unix Epoch, which brings us to the next Y2K or Y2K38 (January 19, 2038).

Most PHP & Perl is coded with this

Happily, I doubt that I'll be around to worry about the year 2038 of the current era, Huw. But I have already invented the Life and the milli-Life, to go with the Day and the milli-Day. I define one Life as 1,000 moons, based upon the concept of one lunar month = 1 milli-Life. A Life works out at around 80 years, which is a fair innings, I reckon. Meanwhile, a milli-Day works out at 86.4 seconds, which is quite a handy period of time, when you think about it!

But are you working on the Julian or Gregorian calendar??!!!!!

At the end of the day (23hours 59 mins 59.1 secs), time just seems to go too fast these days and there isn't enough hours in the day to get everything done (outside of work of course).

Apparently, the ISO standard for time denotion is ISO 8601 !!